Graham Nash Takes One Giant Leap Forward for 29ers Everywhere
Nash to Perform in the Leap Year Capital of the World

February 29, 2000 in Anthony, New Mexico/Texas

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Graham Nash, Rock 'N Roll Hall of
Fame inductee and member of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, will honor his wife
Susan's twelfth (yes 12th) birthday helping to honor an estimated 200,000 Leap
Year Birthday celebrants worldwide when he will perform in concert in the Leap
Year Capital of the World, Anthony, New Mexico/Texas, on February 29, 2000 as
part of a four-day celebration.
Nash, who is taking a break from the critically acclaimed CSNY reunion
tour, will perform at the Worldwide Leap Year Birthday Party to bring
awareness to this rare occasion. Leap Year 2000 marks the first time in
400 years that the extra day has occurred in a Century Year. It will not
happen again in a millennium year until 4000 A.D.
"You know, when I met Graham, I knew that he would be attracted to a
younger woman. But when I told him that I was five years old, he looked at me
as if I were mad," Susan Nash said. "This is going to be a wonderful and fun
Birthday celebration for all 29ers complete with Hot Air Balloons, Chuck Wagon
Breakfasts, Racing Pigs, Concerts and a Graham and Susan Nash Golf
Invitational."
Susan Nash will also be a participant in the 3rd ever Leap Year Day Parade
down Main Street with a little help from her friend, superstar singer/actress
Bette Midler. She will help transform Ms. Nash into a Mermaid by supplying
her with one of her famous Mermaid Tails. Graham Nash will accompany his wife
in the parade as "Fisherman." And, celebrated Artist and friend of the
family, Peter Max, is doing a commemorative t-shirt and poster for the
Celebration.
"Tens of thousands of people don't get to celebrate their birthday but
once every four years," Graham Nash said. "This is something I wanted to do
not only to celebrate Susan's birthday, it is something to celebrate with Leap
Year babies everywhere."
The year 2000 is the fourth consecutive celebration at Anthony as the Leap
Year Capital of the World. The festivities culminate on the 29th day of
February with a Party and Fireworks celebration. The Chamber of Commerce of
Anthony, New Mexico/Texas, adopted Leap Year as a promotional theme four years
ago.
Leap Year 2000 is the fist Leap Year in a Century Year since 1600. Leap
Year dates back at least to the time of Julius Caesar. It is all "in the
spin" or the revolutions of the Earth around the Sun. The Earth turns on its
axis once every 24 hours. It takes 365 days (one year) for the Earth to
revolve around the Sun. But the time is not exact; it really takes 365 days,
5 hours, 48 minutes and 45+ seconds for the Earth to circle the Sun. If an
adjustment had not been made we would finally end up with Christmas in mid
summer and etc. So, the Julian Calender added one extra day every year that
can be divided by four. Still, by the late 1500s, Pope Gregory XIII, on the
advice of his astronomers ordered 10 days to be lopped off to get the calendar
back in synch. He deleted Leap Year Day from the century years except when
the year can be divided evenly by 400.
The Nash Family and The Anthony Chamber of Commerce invites everyone to
spend their extra day at the fourth consecutive Worldwide Leap Year Festival,
February 26-29, 2000 at Anthony, New Mexico/Texas. For further information,
you can contact Mary Ann Brown, Founder of Worldwide Leap Year Birthday Club
at 915-886-2540.
CONTACT: Michael Jensen at Jensen Communications, 626-585-9575 or by
e-mail: Michael@jensencom.com.